Postbop Jazz in the 1960s The Compositions of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea

by Waters, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780190604578
• ISBN10: 0190604573
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-07-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Keith Waters is Professor of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is author of the book The Studio Recordings of the Miles Davis Quintet 1965-68 (Oxford University Press), co-author of the jazz history textbook Jazz: The First Hundred Years, and a contributor to the recent edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music. He has published numerous articles on jazz, particularly jazz in the 1960s. As a jazz pianist, he has recorded and performed throughout the United States, Europe, and in Russia, and appeared in concert with James Moody, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Harris, Chris Connor, and others.

Table of Contents

List of Musical Examples
Introduction and Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Postbop
Chapter 2: Wayne Shorter
Chapter 3: Herbie Hancock
Chapter 4: Chick Corea
Chapter 5: Booker Little, Joe Henderson, and Woody Shaw
Chapter 6: Evolutionary Perspectives

Discography
Bibliography